Printing or exporting a book

Putting all these documents into a Book panel isn't much help if we can't print…or export the whole thing as a single file. Fortunately, if you take a peek…inside the Book panel's flyout menu, you will see that options for…preflighting, packaging, exporting, and printing right here. However, note that…this only prints or exports the files that you have selected in the panel.…For example, right now, I only have Chapter 1 selected. So if I choose…something from the panel menu, I will only get Chapter 1. If I want to get more…than one chapter, I can select them either by Shift-clicking to select…contiguous chapters in a row here or by Command-clicking or Ctrl-clicking on…Windows to select discontiguous items in this list.…

If I want to get all the items, all the documents in my whole panel, I am going…to click in the blank area at the bottom. That deselects everything and if…nothing is selected, it's basically the same thing as having everything…selected. Now I could go back up to the panel menu and I can see that it says…

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12/5/2008

David Blatner brings his knowledge of and passion for InDesign to the latest release of this state-of-the-art publishing program, showing how to harness its power and functionality. InDesign CS4 Beyond the Basics covers the process of publishing with an eye on the program's latest nuances: optimizing page layouts, automating InDesign with Data Merge and XML, exploring interactive documents (including making movies), and exporting publications to a variety of formats. Exercise files accompany the course.